A list of players missing in the 2018 World Cup semifinals
Thomas Meunier and Thiago Silva exchanged costumes in the 2018 World Cup quarter-final match between Belgium and Brazil at Kazan Arena on July 6, 2018. Ahead of two World Cup 2018 semi-final matches, some players must be absent to defend their country due to card accumulation or injury.
In the first game, the French team will face the Belgian national team at the St-Petersburg Stadium on Tuesday, July 10, 2018 or Wednesday morning.
In this fight, Belgium must be willing to lose the right back in this fight, Belgium must be willing to lose right-back mainstay, Thomas Mueunier, due to yellow card accumulation.
The Paris Saint-Germain player has now collected two yellow cards received against Panama in the opening game of Group G and against Brazil in the quarter-finals.
Actually, the FIA has a card bleaching rule after the quarter-final match then goes into the semi-finals. However, the rule has a condition if the new player collects a yellow card.
So, if a young player collects two yellow cards, it will get a ban of playing one game in the semifinals. In addition to Mueunier, other Belgian players are in a fit condition to play.
In the French camp, no player should be absent due to card accumulation. However, conditions Kylian Mbappe and Samuel Umtiti, currently doubtful appear because it is reportedly in less fit condition.
In the second match, the England team will face Croatian national team at the Luzhnki Stadium, Wednesday, July 11, 2018 or early Thursday morning.
Two English players, namely Jordan Henderson and Jamie Vardy doubtful appear in this game because mebgalami injury.
Henderson got a Hamstring injury during a Sweden counter game in the quarter-finals so it had to be pulled out in the 85th minute.
While Vardy is still struggling with a groin injury.
As for Croatia to be a team that may lose many players in the fight for this final ticket.
In the quarter-final match against the hosts Russia, two of Croatia's main players get a pretty serious injury.
Goalkeeper Danijel Subasic suffered a Hamstring injury, and right-back Sime Vrsaljko could not continue the match with a knee injury.
Previously, Croatia also had lost one player during the Group D phase. Nikola Kalinic was discharged due to disciplinary problems.
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